first in boston do you think that the chinese feel like this is a policy of containment we had containment during the cold war the soviet union we have containment of iran now so china's next well i think there's little doubt about that because the united states secretary john kerry secretary of state says and others say that we the united states is sending sixty percent of a vast military armada to to the to the east asia the western pacific now they say the excuse given is there's more economic activity there so the u.s. needs to send troops well down the street here it is to sell it on a small there's a lot of economic activity do we need to send troops it is it is just an absurdity it's a nonsense as far as keeping the seas open there you know want to start and to close the seas china needs open seas for its development so that doesn't make sense i

think that this is yet another attempt by the united states to maintain its hedger man. status in the world and i think there's a bit of panic going on here in the united states foreign policy establishment because if they cannot break china up then the united states is destined if china is to become a moderately prosperous country and bring wellbeing to its citizens then the united states will be set in place just for a few of the different population i think so i think this is a bit of good or bad first it won't go ahead ok fine. well i mean i think there's a lot more to the pivot to asia than simply containment of china i think that that's a very simplistic rendering of the idea and i wouldn't be oh i also wouldn't be

overly sanguine about the ceiling issue the fact that there is never been a threat to the ceilings doesn't mean that there never could be a threat and i think you know the united states has a legitimate interest in protecting the sea lanes in global commerce and it isn't just washington's interest you also have to consider several of the other countries in the region that have very very advanced trade relations with the u.s. japan and south korea the philippines those countries are also. would prefer washington's activity in that in the east asia region particularly in relation to the ceiling. in wa in washington which i reply to what we've already heard. yes exactly because i mean you know basically the last thing we should expect last thing the chinese would expect or any other government to expect is that for the u.s. to act irrationally and you know i mean given that asia has about fifty five percent

of the world's population it's more than thirty percent of world g.d.p. by another ten years asia will be more than us and europe combined by g.d.p. and so and of course you know economic power and military power. you know highly correlated but in the medium to long term and so it's rational for the u.s. to be focusing in terms of quote unquote the paper economic paper geopolitical pivot towards asia that's number one number two is so we should not expect the u.s. to act irrationally and that's kind of the invasion of iraq was a rational wasn't it wasn't it wasn't that irrational wait wait wait wait of course it was it rational that was completely stupid on the us part but just because the u.s. acted irrationally doesn't mean that it's good for the u.s. to keep acting irrationally for ever number one number two is that we should not make the mistake of looking at this as a us versus china because in this day and age what we're talking about coalitions of and actually if the u.s.

was you know kind of jumping into asia uninvited that would be one thing i could imagine you know kind of. a lot of concern about that but u.s. is being invited back you look at japan south korea look at in fact it china ally for long times singapore and of course vietnam philippines malaysia indonesia australia india and so when the u.s. is being invited back we have to look at the correlation that's concerned about the robustness on china's part can john you want to jump in can i can tell instantly go ahead please i prescribed since i seem to be i seem to be in the minority here. i think that when one talks about japan and south korea one must remember that those are both occupied countries u.s. forces that is not trivial secondly i think that you have to look with the u.s.

foreign policy establishment is saying richard armitage former undersecretary of state and joseph nye were recently and a trip to japan an unofficial mission but blessed by x. secretary of state hillary clinton and before that they wrote an article. i believe it was in foreign affairs i can't recall i think it was in foreign affairs. and what they were trying to do in that article is essentially go japan into confronting china you know absent. in the comments of of the other two guests here is any acknowledgement that the united states is running an empire with hundreds of military bases all around the globe second i mean what i have to say and i would say just one more thing that clearly i mean we were complicit in our necessarily a mistake because the policy in the united states in the middle east and i think in the world is either submit or be destroyed ok good point neil in washington right

head replied royd he did not submit libya is destroyed i mean really in a little just to the proverbial pineal go ahead we have to face it we will wait a second john you know to say that the u.s. is an occupier in japan and south korea is fundamentally to misinterpret the reality u.s. yes strong military ally of japan and south korea and clearly has defense treaty with both countries but you know i mean i come from india and i know about british rule and british occupation of india and essentially the industrial revolution in britain in the nineteenth century was fueled from india you know so occupiers in the past have always have had a history of actually emasculating the countries that occupied look at how japan and south korea have performed with the you know with under the alliance with the us they have tried to call it an occupation is complete nonsense matt you want to

jump in there because they were not going to matter for instance going to mass they mad. ok fine fine what i what i want to say is this i think both of you both of the fellow guests are interpreting the pivot is a much too grandly the pivot to asia really isn't all that much i mean it's something it's just a simple term to describe something that's been happening over the last decades anyway and we also cannot forget the political component of the of the pivot to asia which is this president obama wanted to send signal a clear. that the u.s. was less interested than the previous administration in war in. war in the middle east and wants to be in focus on relations in east asia because in the long term that's far more important john you want to read well i would agree that in large part the united states because it. sort of

bogged down in the middle east because the largely because of the impact of the israeli lobby has not been able to counter china in the way it would like but i'd like to i'd like to go to henry kissinger here for a second. henry kissinger in his account china which is not a bad book actually talks about a fundamentally different culture in china from that of the west and i think we should listen to him on this point. because for example if you look at the fifteenth century when china was the most powerful nation in the world it sent out ships bigger than anything columbus would dream of one hundred years later traded. it it traded it explored but unlike the west it did not conquer it did not in slaves that is the western tradition and if you think we've escaped that history second i mean the british empire is really i mean but the united states and wired i

mean listen as neil going it's plain as the nose on your face i don't hate you know quite out of your way the second. second you know you look at china look at china in the fifteenth century and say that somehow that's a good indicator of china today is completely wrong it's like saying let's you know forget about anything that's going to us back you know but no no but but but wait a second i mean like a moebius look at the u.s. under george bush and you know from two thousand to two thousand and eight and to say about you know the white house today it's the same you know leadership it is change is the same what is it what is the biggest differences what is the biggest difference what is the biggest difference or a difference is there any tip you know the previous president made but wait a second you talked about irrationality in iraq and afghanistan and that irrationality took place under the previous president it's not necessary yes certainly the president attributed to him you know those policies along to it.

neal makes a good point but let's go from the fifteenth century to today and let's look at two things about china today it's this world's second largest economy it has not one single overseas base as compared to the united states with hundreds secondly in the white paper. the chinese speak over and over again right gentlemen i'm going to have to jump in at this point we're going to go to a short break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on china stay with hockey.

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please. welcome back to cross talk where all things are considered peter lavelle to mind who were discussing china's pivot. ok and you'll find go back to you in washington is china acting rationally i mean you brought up the issue of rationality go ahead. i think china is acting

rationally or rationally meaning what's good for china on. at least in the short to medium term that doesn't necessarily mean that china especially or the u.s. stash anality or the irrationality on the part of the r.c. and countries necessarily is aligned you know because it's like to combat and if you go and each may act rationally but it doesn't necessarily mean that there's alignment you know clearly china's energy needs a massive of and you know projecting out for the next twenty years china's energy dependence on the rest of the world is going to increase and if you look at what's happening in south china sea what's happening you know with the islands of you know there are. reports indications of estimates of four significant oil and gas reserves so i think that's a huge part of what you know china wants to be able to own that to control that and it's good for china not whether china can get away with that get away with it

because players matt jump in when you think about that. well i mean yes i agree with the professor mean it's a case where the pivot to asia is both countries acting rationally and that you know you have china that is also growing and china has a sphere of influence that it wants to operate you know has laid expansive claims over the east china sea in the south china sea they claim these territories for a very long time but only recently have they really had the muscle to to act on these claims and for the united states has an interest of course in maintaining its a gemini over the sea lanes in the east china sea as well as as a partnerships with countries like japan and korea malaysia cetera so i don't think we should say that there's any this is a case where one country is is misbehaving or one country is acting irrationally because it simply isn't true this is something that was inevitable in that

something that is in the term pivot to asia i believe is simply branding it's simply a way to refer to something that was happening already and it's going to continue it isn't new ok john what do you think about that. i mean why do you need the military for a pivot why the military all the time well that was going to be one of the points i was going to make why just as i said when i started out if we have a sale at macy's down the street with there's lots of economic activity do we have to send the military down there i don't think so it is i think that. let's let john finish his point lead of the initial involvement of deterrence there is a there is a washington centric view if you if you get inside the beltway the idea of washington and the and the united states is the savior of the world and an enforcer of human rights is solid but if you go out into the rest of the world you begin to encounter a challenge johnson's books you know empire of bases and blowback and that's the

reality here and to turn our backs and this no id military empire the biggest the world has ever seen and attribute to it after what we've seen in libya syria iraq iran benign motives i think that's the height of folly that's not the reality where i think with. all these a very not aggressive what larry all of us read in that china or here and we have to realize that you know neal go ahead in washington jump in you know i think i think i think i think it's fundamentally wrong to look at it as a u.s. centric perspective in fact you have to look at it first and foremost as it centric issue and the players in this game that's being played out not just the u.s. and china it's not just the chinese view and u.s. view you have to look at other players within asia you cannot just say that japan doesn't matter south korea doesn't matter doesn't matter philippines indonesia

malaysia singapore india they don't matter the only thing that matters is china what kind of an argument is that you want to reply to that go ahead i'm not making they're going let me john you want to reply to that and saying is that the argument you made the argument is that you know what is green on. any. i agree i mentioned south korea i mentioned south korea i mentioned japan if you don't read well you don't get mine i call it a right scuse me if you bring in a third one if you want a pretty good instance of aggressive imperial movement consider remember that the war in vietnam left two to four million people dead according to robert mcnamara that was not the act of a but now if so why is the inviting us back and one of the values me as well in that job because i think you raise an excellent question you raise an excellent question about age and powers and asian countries being the

determinant of what goes on in asia may i remind you the united states is not an ancient power it's half a world away it doesn't even belong there i think it was about how to get what they wanted by asian countries don't be asian countries have a right to invite the united states you think the asian country said no to any but in both. in both south korea and japan there are large peace movements that want the u.s. out of there so who's doing the inviting that one policy established by linked in but then again i get it just because it is a little bit lower i don't think i don't think that's a really big bite and just because that it's a movement doesn't mean that south korea as a country or the south korean government wants the u.s. to go away i mean there are movements of all types of that movement that is going to send us humans up the country ok matt jump in yes matt jenkins go ahead yeah i agree don't matta sure the idea that. the idea that these countries don't you know

that are not mindful of the fact that. u.s. power they don't think that u.s. power is coercive in japan and korea as the professor is saying this is something that they they they want as a check against chinese power i'm not saying that china is any worse than the u.s. i'm not saying that they're any more belligerent that there is a moral issue here or a normative issue it's simply the case is this if the u.s. were to withdraw all of its military troops tomorrow or the next day from east asia i can't i don't think that we're going to experience a period of complete peace and harmony and you have to think about how deterrence works and and that china with the largest military in east asia would behave very differently if they didn't have the united states there i'm not saying that this is necessarily a great thing but i mean the idea that the united states is the principal aggressor and is the only country with imperial interests in east asia is wrong china has

interests as well in a sphere of influence that it wants to to to preside over and that's simply the case of world politics going back for centuries countries have series of influence they want to exert influence over other countries and the idea that the united states is uniquely malevolent in this regard is completely false john jump in. well ok you know you can appeal to to to the future what would be and should be and will be i'm appealing to history united states started aggressive who are in korea and i'm declared war by the way the first we had under progressive so-called progressive president harry truman also a mass murderer for dropping the atomic weapons on japan and. started that war actually and that's another thing the firebombings of japan and the now you're dead and john deere although they were right in those even there he was robert mcnamara said that wait a second let me finish and then the united states started

a war and vietnam laos cambodia come on now this is a ruthless empire and you can turn it i mean john but history just and go oh yeah. let's not judge sir john wait a second i mean you look at china's history no no no wait a second you look at china's history you look at china as i want to say the words and anybody who tries to go to china definitely no. no no no wait a second i mean you know china is never the way the last thing let me let me a little in washington just like in the last yes. yes the last thing i would say is that the u.s. you know has been you know. meeting fellow throughout its history look at look at the number one killer of all circumstance that's ok but they're not about let's go ahead and say about this just because the u.s. is going to be rational timer does not mean that about it human rights and that sort of thing has nothing to do with u.s. foreign policy henry kissinger says that stephen walt says that john mearsheimer

says that it's absurd the second only only dissociated academic this man would believe in that sort of things are just for you are you saying that saying here is that you know china is the best behaved country on earth. i did not say that i said the united states and that's sort of the power it is a ruthless imperial power and china is well while advise to be very careful matt jump in go ahead. yeah well i mean you're ignoring the capacity i mean china has never had the strength to wage a war across an ocean the united states did but the idea that the their behavior would be any different hundred. were slave ships from the west. it was a most powerful couldn't john and i don't understand the hounds culture counts what your ig it's not

a coincidence that as china has grown stronger that its economy has grown that its military has grown that it has pursued a more interest interventionist foreign policy this is what happened to the united surveillance for this one way or the before in the united way and has it been interventionist have you not paid attention to anything in history over the last few years because i have. china china that the intervention of the island recedes nowhere. all right you're not letting me finish because you don't have any real point to make here what i'm saying is this that you have i do china has been more aggressive in pursuing its territorial claims in the east china sea in the south china sea it is not a coincidence china has has had these opinions it has had these claims for decades but in the past they were unable to act upon it because they lack the power now that china has more muscle it is going to pursue its interests like any country would i'm not saying china is worse i'm not saying it's better it's not

a moral issue it's not a normative issue china is simply pursuing it saying it was more aggressively now because they have the ability to do so and these interesting clue claims that you're seeing trees there's american exceptionalism the name in the e-mail is from henry kissinger there's. there's an american exceptionalism in that you know i mean because it makes the point which i think i do either second or right. here we have run out of time fascinating discussion many thanks to my guests in washington and in boston and thanks to our viewers for watching us here to see you next time and remember crosstalk.

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kerry rocks can. you see. regarding what the republic of texas was in eight hundred thirty six a number of people who had moved here from north america. at the invitation of the mexican government to settle here they were being chased out by the new president of mexico was also a general of the army is there. and they had to defend themselves against santa ana i was armies that lasted for about a year but finally general sam houston leading these volunteers defeated santa ana at a place called saniel sento and in defeating the president general of

mexico they were able to force him to sign a treaty. the treaty formed a new nation so that he would never again come across the rio grande river to bother of the people in texas any more tree also said. nothing of the land of texas . belonged to the people who lived on the wound of texas for ever and that's a treaty that is perpetual it doesn't go away. so what is the republic of texas now it is the land of texas one of texas does not belong to the us doesn't belong to the federal government and the last of the people. who live here. and there is no federal land if they want land and. texas they have to lease from a spring there are military bases school.

ok go not. fall off to him all if. what the republic of texas is today in the early two thousand is. a number of people got together and said you know what the film land is still ours and if there's a perpetual treaty that says we are a nation let's just be a nation as so they elected but with a vote from the people. a president vice president secretary of state a congress a supreme court justice and all of those are still occupied to this day in fact that meets every month on the second set of the of the mosque and the people of texas who are interested come to those meetings that's what it is today the

purpose the goal of the republic of texas and what we're doing is to restore and to preserve all the freedoms and all the rights that were won in eight hundred thirty six at the battle of santa sent over when that treaty was signed. in other words we're here to make sure that the people get to exercise those rights even though an overreaching federal government of the u.s. keeps trying to take away more and more of the rights and freedoms we're here to restore them and to make sure they're preserved. to have the same. way of doing. i drove here from lake jackson texas it's about two hundred forty miles. i have to wake up early but i wanted to come i went last month to this

meeting. and what i see are some people that are concerned about. where our country is heading and. then they they look for the alternative. but there's a lot of talk about secession in this country because we see tyranny in washington we see even our own elected representatives wind up getting elected because they're people with wealth that are paying for their elections. the. man who. you may have won not just. and only because

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a map of the state of texas today and all of the mountains all the way up to here which is wyoming colorado new mexico kansas and oklahoma. that we're part of the nation then have been stripped away because this is the northern limit of texas which is somewhere and sheer i can't see or. have served these papers to. all the different governors. to washington d.c. . to europe blame is put. so well i did. them leaving him a copy because i didn't serve him. i deserved all the top people. viewed you have any. money real money. with.

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over here we've got a machine it's running republic of texas currency right now we've got a tough one. thirty nine millimeter silver medallion. so you can see the star on one side with an outline of the original. other side one nation under one god they write sculpt the. we started doing these all way back in two thousand and nine hundred thousand. these presses for use by the u.s. for almost fifty years to make any. you hear the most repurposed make fractional silver copper or occurrences we change the world.

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one is laying the piss out of all fifty states forty nine other states all of their land records are state. there are all forty nine states. up in virginia very close to the district of columbia. united states bureau of. the united states own as can folks and throw all the. states on. these records state and texas because first. the senate ratified the treaty with texas for friendship commerce and navigation in eight hundred forty three but refused to ratify. a year later and eighteen forty four. december outgoing president john tyler

proposed that texas yeah next by a joint post of the us congress that past february of forty five. november texas both. been eight hundred sixty one. people discovered the united states wasn't going to do what they said they would do. so they. elected form a new constitution and took another vote to secede or not. the united states declared the vote in the constitution null and void. with three what people didn't understand. the stakes never see the dates. in they were and they were taken to vote to secede and you cannot cede troops up and you never see did. jay james be heard or

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call's or apart or sites on trees government has become a parasite. and there are as many people dependent on my government. in the united states as there are but are not the best. so it's a kind of a fifty fifty deal well we can't support. got over now. by our labor because government doesn't produce anything of value it only takes one side. and gives it to people who are critical. or depend on. each and republic of texas that can't happen. just to show the republic says the government is very small. does very few things is forbidden to do the other things i sold people keep the fruits of their labor they keep the work of their hands down the down they can. start businesses they can hire more people the other people have

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thanks bro no way things are going republic of texas to be a whole hog better off when the state of texas. texas has got its own lecture cool grid it's got all the hall and gas and everything it needs it's got all the end very everything that made it can survive by itself without the rest of the united states which is to say the rest united states cannot survive without. the rust people around this country around the whole world are thinking oil

wells when they hear about texas well that was true a long time ago. but now two thousand and thirteen there is more energy coming out of the ground from natural gas than there is from liquid petroleum. and there's enough natural gas discovered already. to fuel texas for the next hundred years or longer this plant behind us is one of the plants that's capable of burning gas. now because there is so much gas and oil and coal and wind and solar available in texas meaning we have a lot more sunny days. texas is a stand alone area as far as an energy resources it does not need to import energy from other states or from the federal government it can export energy and so that the resources are here and the costs of energy per b.t.u.

are per one ever you measure it is usually almost always lower in texas that is in the rest of the states. which is very good for us but that's because. with the independent texas power grid. texas does not have to let the u.s. regulate the costs the price of energy. the people who work of the mill are not employees they're partners and they've agreed that when they get paid for their work. that they will be paid in silver that is produced as a man. and it makes sense because they're producing real money and they want to be paid in real money. everything is part of their exchanging their labor. hours of their life. for

a commodity and that commodity is sold it's like paying people eggs or bacon. since they're being paid in a commodity according to the u.s. government and they are us. this is not money this is a commodity. so sets are not being paid in u.s. dollars. and they are. u.s. dollars or what's taxed. that's the simplest way to. no income tax if you're paid in a. fourth you're paid in. the bread. you know that's it just an exchange a commodity for the use of my time and my skills. serve linda roth child and he is sitting there overlooking all of his sheep and yell in front of fema

camps and the i.r.s. and fellow preserve the builder birds and see if. we are the nanny state now where we are being watched almost everywhere we go by security cameras and satellites and drones flying over us we've got our. military now to to extend democracy out there to the rest of the world and as long as we're sleeping we're just watching t.v. everything's going to be just fine there was a while they lose one of us and they don't really like to lose us but it's all collateral damage. now and. the people here believe very strongly in peace we're pacifists we are anti-war. we believe at the same time though that very strong defense and being able to protect your life your liberty and your property is also very important so as walk through you may see guns scattered across the building there's a a r fifteen back here in this corner a long sort of marketing director tray. and so you'll see

a lot of people carrying in. and doing things that most normal business would normally do. as the second amendment actually on the back of a coin completely spelled out tomorrow. when one of the more popular medallions. i think this poster here really sums up who we are better than anything else in this building ron paul is certainly one of our personal heroes and probably the by far the most legitimate person that's ever served in government. he wrote a book called end the fed and it's great book but we took a little bit of a different approach and said why don't we just stop the revolution and start the evolution and ignore the fed. trying to compete against them instead of trying to put them out of business or wave a sign to get them to change what they're doing let's just ignore them pretend as if they don't exist and we'll watch the effect that they have over our lives and our finances disappear almost to nothing. so we like to ignore the federal here.

you know people often ask what would it take. for us to. have. the authority. to govern. the land area and the people. of texas and there are several possibilities or probabilities that would bring out about one is. a complete economic collapse when the monetary system of the united states stops working and it's inevitable that it will and then you have anarchy then you have chaos then you have disorder. and the thing that's needed is to have a government in place that works on a volunteer basis instead of having to be paid huge salaries as the people in austin texas are busy on it. and that's why you see what they're saying in the

first of all to hear. the news articles are starting to reveal what we've known for a long time here and that is that there are more jobs in texas than just about any place else. and in fact governor perry has said texas is open for business which is another of saying we have jobs here and we do and the question is why does texas have plenty of jobs when there are whole states that. just can't create jobs and have so many people more people going on in atlanta than ever. and there are several reasons for that one is a lot more techniques as people. are personally entrepreneurs' they think in terms of how can i organize people together to provide a product or provide

a service which. people want the worst not to get them to want something but if they already want something how can i provide it to them. to show the biggest part of it is there's just a whole lot less government interference over regulation. you have to get a permit you have to wait six months or a year before you do something while they go and think about whether it's good for the people or not if it isn't good for the people the people want by the darn fam. and also. the united states flag and the texas play was the same guy with the only state and with a republic that can do that together play a lot below and whatever's on top of that the female bits on top of a flag sets precedent if it's a ball it's military. eagle it's

a present. one of these days i'm a snippet there hamburger on top that american. ok let's go to the cabin though. if it. is to feed higher than the orchard and the seeds did you. ever think texas is a bigger. always. we have got or only. got our own money. it was good to get the bill and higher than or just in d.c. that a bad. texas

was fighting. it is defending itself against the armies of santa ana from mexico. they chose the gold star as their emblem that says republic of texas. that seal was a dog. that in eighteen thirty seven and is still in the capitol building today right here in the very center of the building. which is just another evidence that the republic of texas has not gone away there's just a different form of government covering it but the land the people and the culture and the spirit of texas are still the same today.

as an elected senator in the texas republic. i've had to give thought to whether i even wanted to run for that office. during all of that i decided that it was worth doing for several reasons i have children and grandchildren. i guess pretty soon i'll have great grandchildren. and i want them to grow up and live in a place that's truly free and that requires a nation that's independent. where the government is limited it's limited in the amount of money it can spend or borrow or print. or coin or whatever. so i saw a chance for me. to play a part. having a clear vision putting it in words putting it on paper and creating they set the

foundation on which a free nation could live again a free independent texas. potentially deadly blizzard taking aim for the northeast it's expected to hit stunning in a few hours from new york to maine we have team coverage of the storm. but what we're watching is the very heavy snow moving into boston proper earlier today it was very sticky you can see it start to become much more connery down the line there's still a lot of snow out here a good place for snowball fight. jason it is going to be pretty incredible today there and even record snowfall throughout much of it might still be slugged three

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for the u.k. to give asylum to i'm going inside which says that at the mercy of the eventual time the bond after working alongside british forces. also china and america trade escaping human rights reports with beijing laid down just the one i want isn't fazed to porch more relative to the wild. germany find still son daughter a europe wide economic slump and its citizens say the word and the rise in immigration is something before ends of a stays on this thread. international news and comment live from moscow this is r.c. with me hello and welcome to the program.